Outlines basic Arabic grammar, and introduces useful words and expressions and simplified dialogue which can be used for conversations and traveling.

Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) offers you a step-by-step approach to the Arabic spoken in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Levantine Arabic is widely recognized as one of the major languages of Arabic radio and television. Specially written by an international authority on teaching Arabic as a foreign language, Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) is the ideal course for self-study or class use and requires no previous knowledge of the language. What makes Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) your best choice in personal language learning? Interactive – lots of dialogues and exercises for regular practice. Clear – concise grammar notes. Complete – including answer key and dictionary section Helpful – provides invaluable guidance on everything related to language in its social, cultural, and religious contexts. Innovative – the course also teaches the skills of reading Arabic script. Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on CD/MP3 format, or comes included in the great value Colloquials Pack.

A sixteen-lesson program teaches basic Arabic language skills for essential communication and traveling needs.

And easy and simple way to teach yourself Arabic

Lessons introduce beginning students to the Egyptian Arabic language.

Short lessons introduce beginning students to the Arabic language.

Covers vocabulary, pronunciation, dialogue, and grammar.

An introduction to the language includes three hundred words and phrases, short dialoges, and quizzes.

A fifteen-unit basic language course focuses on communication needs, including making travel arrangements, getting directions, shopping, and ordering from a menu.

Whether you are newly arrived in Egypt and need to know the words for bread and apartment, or a long-term resident who suddenly needs to know how to ask for a picture frame or complain of a sore throat, this dictionary is for you. Fully revised and expanded, the third edition of this unique and invaluable dictionary presents 6,500 words commonly needed by foreigners speaking Arabic in Egypt. Arabic words are written in a clear and consistent transcription system, plurals are given for all nouns, plurals and feminine forms are provided for all adjectives, and past tenses are given for all verbs. The dictionary also provides stress rules and basic charts of verb endings, negation of verbs, form and use of numbers, pronominal suffixes, and comparatives and superlatives.

Employs diagrams and conversational exercises to introduce the basic grammatical forms and vocabulary terms used in all Arabic dialects